This lasagna layers ground turkey breast, low-fat ricotta, spinach and marinara under part-skim mozzarella, with a suggestion to replace a third of the sauce with pureed carrot and sweet potato. British researchers trace the dish to a 14th-century English text.
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Recipes & Dining
Healthy recipes, cooking advice and dining, including recipes from the American Institute for Cancer Research.
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Healthy Recipes: Orzo with Kale
An AICR recipe pairing orzo with kale, cooking the pasta with turmeric and coriander and finishing the greens with garlic, lemon and nutmeg. Sauteing the kale rather than boiling it retains more nutrients and keeps the texture tender.
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Healthy Recipes: Orange-Glazed Plantains
Dana Jacobi explains how plantain flesh changes as it ripens: green ones stay starchy and get fried into tostones, yellow ones streaked with brown turn tart-sweet and hold up in stews, and fully black ones stay firm when baked or blended into a smoothie.
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Healthy Recipes: Healthy Turkey and Wild Rice Casserole
A leftover-turkey casserole: Uncle Ben's long grain and wild rice cooked in chicken broth, then combined with cream of celery soup, sauteed onion, green beans, pimento, water chestnuts, mayonnaise and cheddar, and baked 25 to 30 minutes at 350 degrees.
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Healthy Recipes: Winter Salad with Warm Mushrooms
Cool baby spinach and chicory meet warm crimini mushrooms cooked with garlic and thyme, dressed with lemon juice and balsamic vinegar. Makes four servings at 140 calories each.
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leftover turkey recipe ideas
A recipe for vegetable and turkey stir-fry that uses diced leftover turkey with ginger, garlic and chopped leafy greens such as kale, mustard or collard greens, followed by links to other leftover-turkey dishes.
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Hearty Turkey Soup
Two recipes for using Thanksgiving turkey leftovers, with notes on boiling the whole bird for homemade stock versus using bouillon cubes, and chilling stock so the fat can be skimmed. The piece calls turkey soup a mild, hydrating comfort food after a heavy holiday weekend.
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Leftover turkey recipes, turkey soup
Two recipes for turning leftover turkey into soup: one built on tomato soup, canned tomatoes, chili powder, cumin and sour cream, and a simpler version using onion and ginger powder, corn starch and condensed tomato soup.
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Tired? It's not your turkey's fault
Turkey is not why you feel sleepy after Thanksgiving: egg white, sesame flour and soy protein hold more tryptophan per 100 grams, and little of the amino acid crosses the blood-brain barrier to become serotonin. A dietitian blames the size of the meal and suggests drinking enough water.
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How to carve a turkey
Step-by-step turkey carving instructions: rest the roasted bird under foil for 20 minutes, then use a sharp thin-bladed knife to separate the thighs, drumsticks and wings at the joints rather than cutting through bone, and slice the breast thinly from each side.
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Turkey cooking times -Updated
USDA timetables for stuffed and unstuffed turkeys at 325 to 350F run to about 5 hours for a 24-pound bird, with cooking time doubled for a bird roasted from frozen. The innermost thigh, the breast or the stuffing must reach 165F.
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Turkey thermometer placement
The USDA says a whole turkey is safe at an internal temperature of 165°F, measured in the thickest part of the thigh, the wing and the breast. Stuffing cooked inside the bird must also reach 165°F. Cooks may choose to go higher.
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Roasting a turkey for Thanksgiving Day
Basics for a Thanksgiving roast: a brine of salt, brown sugar, vegetable stock, peppercorns, allspice and ginger with the bird kept covered at least 12 hours below 38F, plus roasting timetables for stuffed and unstuffed turkeys at 325 to 350F and double time from frozen.
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Butterball Turkey Questions - Updated
Answers to common Butterball turkey questions, written by the site rather than the company: keep cooked turkey no more than two hours at room temperature and two to three days refrigerated, thawed turkey can be refrozen, and turkey has no gluten though gravy packets and rubs may.
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How long to cook a thanksgiving turkey per pound
USDA roasting timetables run from about 1.5 hours for a small breast to 5 hours for a 24-pound bird, but the piece stresses that the oven should stay at 325F or above and that the coldest spot in the turkey must reach 165F however long it takes.
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Healthy Recipes: Cranberry Sweet Potato Bread
An AICR quick bread that folds mashed sweet potatoes, brown sugar, canola oil and orange and vanilla extracts into spiced all-purpose and whole-wheat flours with dried cranberries. Makes 16 servings at 160 calories each.
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Roasted Turkey Recipe for Thanksgiving
A Thanksgiving roast turkey recipe built around a 15-pound bird, a brine of salt, brown sugar, vegetable stock, peppercorns, allspice and ginger, and aromatics including apple, onion, cinnamon, rosemary and sage, with thawing in the refrigerator or cool water, never at room temperature.
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Methods for cooking a turkey
Cook a whole turkey to an internal 165 F, verified with a food thermometer, in an oven set no lower than 325 F. Roasting time shifts with stuffing, a partially frozen bird, pan color and depth, foil tents, cooking bags and rack position. For safety, cook the stuffing separately in a casserole.
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